The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-10-01
Great Auction Sale
OF 600 CITY LOTS.
On OCTOBER "a AND Is. 1887.

Kearney is 200 miles west of Omaha. nearthe
ceRter of the State of NJ braska, aud midway
between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans: is on
the main line of the q. P. and b. & M. railways,
and another railway is now being constructed
NINETY miles having been graded from Kear-
Hills.
The Missouri Pacific, Chicago and Rock
Island. Northwest ern and Atchison, Topeka
Santa Fe systems contemplate building to
Kearney in the near future.
Kearney's present population is 1000. We
venture the opinion that no city in the United
States of equal size has excelled, if any have
equaled in the same time. the following eight
new improvements made in Kearney in the
past year:
!. Water power developed.
2. City Gas-works complete.
8. City Water works complete.
T. Electric Light Plant complete, and to be
5. Midway Hotel lat cost of SIS 1000 to be
complete by Nov.1.
g. Street Railways, contracted to be COM
Z. $65, 600 Court House, under construction.
s. Gas Well Company formed, and contract
let to put well down 1900 feet.
Unrivaled Water Power.
By an outlay of between one and two hum
dred thousand dollars, water has been taken
from the Platte river through Canal sixteen
miles long aud thirty feet wide, and brought
into the heart of the city. This furnishes a
magnificent water-power with seventy feet
fall within the city limits. Parties from Min
eapolis are now PLACID g Turbine wheels with
in 200 feet of the Canal, from which the water
is taken through 54-iDch iron pipe to the
wheels, where the direct fall on the wheels
is sixty feet.
This immense power is to he utilized and
distributed from line of shafts and manu-.
facturers have engaged this power for vari-
GUS purposes. After four separate examina.
tons, by as many eminent and DISTINGUISHED
hydraulic engineers from Denver and Mime
apolis, each reports that kearney has an EX-
CELLENT AND PERMANENT WATER. POWER.
The waterpower can easily be increased
many fold.
Wooden goods, -four, oatmeal. hominy, flax,
starch. paper tboth straw and of the finer
quallties), as well as many other manufac-
tured articles in daily use, can be probably
made in Kearney. Canning factory would
pay good dividends from the start.
A Pressed-Brick mandatory is to COM
mence business at once, using the WATERPROOF
er.
Kearney has many advantages as a home, as
business point, and more especially as
place for PROFITABLE INVESTMENT OF MONEY
REAL ESTATE. while now low in price, is
rapidly advancing in value, and investments
made at this time cannot fail to return to the
investor quick and large profits.
THE PROPERTY TO BE SOLD.
large tract of real estate originally re-
served from sale by the b. & M. r. X. Com
pany, with the intention of laying it off into
city lots when required, has now been pur-
chased, subdivided, and will be sold at public
auction. October IA and Is, by the Kearney
Laud and Improvement Company the men,
bership of which comprts' bankers mer-
orally, residents OF the City OF Kearney.
This property is adjacent to Wyoming ave-
nue., one of the principal thoroughfares of
the city, on which are located national banks
elevators, hotels, railroad stations, wholesale
houses. ETC.. etc
Already our Board of School Directors have
purchased, for the erection of a fine brick
school house, an entire block of this property,
and fine residences are now being erected
upon some Of the lots.
The lots 10 be sold comprise about 800 man
ufacturing sites, business and residence lots.
Kearney is IN the midst of as fine an agri-
cultural country any in the United States
and is to become the manufacturing center of
Nebraska and many States and Territories
adjacent.
When all the water power is employed ia
manufacturing. the city will have a popula-
ton of from fifty to one hundred thousand
people. What will the lots now offered for
sale be worth them More thousands than you
now pay hundreds at this sale.
Excursion reduced 30-day tickets will be sold
over the Wabash. Chicago 4 Northwestern and
G. b. & Q. roads TO Kearney. Arrange your
Western trip so as to be with us at our great
sale October IA and Is. For fuller information
write for our descriptive circular. "All About
Kearney," gladly sent tree. Address II. G.
WILEY, See'y, Kearney Land Investment Co..
Kearney, Neb.